Exemplars Rubric Quotes & Sayings

I return my attention my drum — Jo Raven

Anything that looks good makes you feel better. — Young Jeezy

A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or should you begin in the present and make use of flashbacks only where necessary? ... If the material with which you want to open the story is from the character's deep past, then there has to be an important relationship between what has happened in the past and what is about to happen. In other words, is the material with which you open the story an arrow pointing toward the unified effect? — Julie Checkoway

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient. — Paul LePage

Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself. — Charles Yu

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology. — Paul Di Filippo

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. — W.C. Fields

But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness. — George Saunders

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out. — Greg Gutfeld